Example sentences of "[vb pp] him for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 2 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 3 | It seemed that his final revelation had soothed him , prepared him for death . |
| 4 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 5 | I 've got him for English . |
| 6 | I 've got him for drama . |
| 7 | She had sued him for libel . |
| 8 | The paper quotes an irate lawyer , accustomed to representing women pursuing harassment claims and incensed over the double standard , as saying SCO could have terminated him for misconduct , employment agreement or no , and paid him nothing . |
| 9 | Again , this makes sense only if it is allowed that Kimon had , for several years already , had his rivals : Pericles had prosecuted him for bribery , though the charge was withdrawn . |
| 10 | Nature , he thought , had intended him for scholarship yet here he was at forty-six , still a small-town tradesman . |
| 11 | He does n't think anybody has ever asked him for forgiveness either . |
| 12 | Blanche had just asked him for permission to approach the secret services formally and inspect their files on Graham Mills . |
| 13 | They had started off friends but Joseph 's first wife had left him for Leary . |
| 14 | The paper quotes an irate lawyer , accustomed to representing women pursuing harassment claims and incensed over the double standard , as saying Santa Cruz could have fired him for misconduct , employment agreement or no , and paid him nothing . |
| 15 | Cumbermound had sent him for brandy and glasses . |
| 16 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 17 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 18 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |